At your request we conducted an intensive, Phase I archeological survey for the proposed expansion of the existing Henderson 46/12 kV substation site in Southern Houston County (Figure 1). The survey was conducted on July 9, 2012. This squarish, 2.5 ac tract touches on State Route 26 on the south, and falls along the eastern edge of the Perry-Unadilla transmission line on the east. The western tract boundary is in line with the fence of the existing substation in the southwest tract comer. Two substations occupy the tract-a large one near the middle of the tract and a smaller one in the southwest tract comer (see Figure 2). Much of the ground within the tract has been altered by grading and filling of an access road and the leveling of the ground for the substations. The vegetation ranges from dense greenbriar and blackberry throughout much of the transmission line corridor, to relatively open ground around the substations, and patches of woods near the road and to the north of the substations. The expansion of the substation tract lies to the north of the existing substation (Figure 2). The tract is located on the crest and side slopes of a ridge nose. Cherty rock outcrops on the ridge nose and it's side slopes, but the observed material was unsuitable for making stone tools.
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